I mean, I’m way oversimplifying, but that is the general idea of evolution. But yes it’s far more gradual than one bird giving birth to a full modern chicken.
I’m way oversimplifying, but that is the general idea of evolution.
It isn’t, but that wasn’t my point either way. I’m emphasizing that this gradation you see (the “far more gradual” you wrote) actually applies constantly to the whole lineage, at any two points, unless they’re very apart from each other, which means that “species” as a definition can’t work when comparing generations that are too close together.
I mean, I’m way oversimplifying, but that is the general idea of evolution. But yes it’s far more gradual than one bird giving birth to a full modern chicken.
It isn’t, but that wasn’t my point either way. I’m emphasizing that this gradation you see (the “far more gradual” you wrote) actually applies constantly to the whole lineage, at any two points, unless they’re very apart from each other, which means that “species” as a definition can’t work when comparing generations that are too close together.